You begin your journey not knowing where it will take you. You have plans, you have dreams, but every now and again you have to take uncharted roads, face impassable mountains, cross treacherous rivers, be blocked by landslides and earthquakes. That's the way my life has been.

Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up.

I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been, because millions of years have passed over evolution, people have scattered across the face of this earth, been isolated from each other, developed independently, had different intermixtures between races, peoples, climates, soils... I didn't start off with that knowledge. But by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, that is the conclusion I've come to.

I have decided that we shall make and build and never give way.

If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.

The same law applies to me. Nobody has sued me for libel because I do not defame my enemies.

Every person, genius or moron, has a right to reproduce himself.